Term 1
CSIS 500C (3): Queer and Trans of Colour Creativity and World Making
Title: Queer and Trans of Colour Creativity and Worldmaking
Instructor: Dr. JP Catungal
Description: This graduate seminar focuses on queer and trans of colour creative practices of worldmaking and the political and intellectual resources they offer for understanding the world as we know and experience it. Our interlocutors in this seminar will academic readings as well as the work of creative practitioners in the fields of poetry, fiction, drag, performance and media. Key questions that will guide our graduate seminar include: What kinds of worlds do queer and trans people of colour imagine and create, and how – through what ways of knowing and being – can be we sense them? What can practices of queer and trans of colour creativity tell us about the present moment and how we have arrived here? How do they orient us towards more socially just, more abundant and more capacious futures?